Sophie Dream, MD

Dr. Sophie Dream is an endocrine surgeon, who joined the Department of Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in August of 2025.

She completed her fellowship in endocrine surgery at the University of Alabama in 2019. Afterwards, she served as section chief of the Section of Endocrine Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin and program director for the Medical College of Wisconsin Comprehensive Endocrine Surgery Fellowship prior to coming to UAB.

Her clinical practice focuses on the surgical treatment of benign and malignant disorders of thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal glands. She pioneered thyroid radiofrequency ablation and grew the non-surgical thyroid intervention program at MCW.

Her focus of investigation is in identifying and quantifying the more elusive impacts primary hyperparathyroidism has on quality of life in order to inform the operative indications for parathyroidectomy. Dr. Dream also has an Adult Complex Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Focused Practice Designation from the American Board of Surgery.

She is an Associate Editor for Clinical Thyroidology and serves on the Editorial Boards of Surgery, American Journal of Surgery, Journal of Surgical Research, and Surgical Oncology Insight.